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^In 1492, Spain sufferred a crushing defeat at the hands
^of the puny forces of the Emirate of Granada. France
^declared war immediately and by 1500 the continent was
^aflame. Only three principalities noticed an event of
^equal importance ignored by everyone else.
^In that fateful year "India" & "Japan" were reached by a
^man whose name was lost to history. Instead of circum-
^navigating Africa as the Portuguese were doing before
^being pulled into the Spanish War, he sailed across
^the watery expanse that is the Atlantic and reached
^the Orient...
^Venice has fallen on hard times with the rise of the
^hostile Ottoman and Mamluke powers in the ports of the
^Near East.
^The Teutonic Knights have lost their sense of purpose
^now that the Far North is lacking in heathens and are
^losing land to the Poles.
^The Hafsid Caliphate in North Africa seems ready to
^crumble.
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